Posts Tagged ‘NLRB’
Card Check Is Heavy, So Is it On To EFCA Lite?
LRIonline has found documents showing the National Labor Relations Board is looking into the workability of electronic voting system and concludes: “Make no mistake. If unions can
Card Check King Accused of Recusal Backtrack
LaborUnionReport.com is helping lead the charge against card check-by-fiat and its personification, National Labor Relations Board member Craig Becker. The site points out that Becker is backtracking on an important promise he made to recuse himself from cases involving his former employer, the highly powerful Service Employee International Union.
Now Shopfloor’s Carter Wood is adding two very valuable cents, pointing out that Becker’s ethics pledge looked like swiss cheese, opining: “Well, if you
Hot Off The (PR)resses
It appears the impact of recess-appointed Craig Becker on the National Labor Relations Board may be having subtle but important and negative effects on employers and employees, or at least that’s one of several plausible conclusions to be drawn after reading some great investigatory work by Chamberpost.com’s Brad Peck.
He did some digging and found out that the NLRB is now essentially doing public relations work for unions, putting out notices of union-won elections (which, of course, greatly undercuts the argument for the sinisterly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act). What Peck found was that the PR work was a significant break from the past, when the Board remained neutral, as one would expect given the wording and spirit of the National Labor Relations Act. This left him to conclude:
Unions and some Board folks have in the past cherry picked a few words out of the 1935 policy declaration in the Wagner Act that it is the policy of the US to “encourage” collective bargaining
Card Check and NLRB: Raw Deal or New Deal?
Among the continuing reaction to news of the president’s ill-advised recess appointment of union attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board comes from none other than a former Member of that board.
We tracked down John Raudabaugh, formerly of the NLRB and now of Nixon Peabody, with a question we’d received about the president’s departure from the standard practice of appointing members from both parties. Here’s what Mr. Raudabaugh offered:
“The NLRB is now 3 to 1. On August 27, it will be 3 to 0. Not since the New Deal and first six years of the NLRB, 1935-1941, has the Board been all Democrats or all from one party. Labor law reform followed in 1947 to balance the scales. Is the past to be prologue”
It’s hard to beat the expertise of someone’s who has sat in that very chair. And so many historical parallels one could get into …
UPDATE: More reaction coming in … The US Chamber adds 50 cases to keep an eye on and warns employers to be on red alert.
UPDATE(d) UPDATE: Thanks to BigGovernment.com readers for joining us! Also se more from Rob Bluey of Heritage, who writes: “The appearance of preferential treatment hasn
ABC Objects to Recess Appointment of Craig Becker to National Labor Relations Board
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) 2010 National Chairman Jim Elmer, president of James W. Elmer Construction Co., Spokane, Wash., today issued the following statement in reaction to President Obama
Monday Morning Card Check Briefing
The big news of the weekend — was it planned to be dumped with the Friday trash? — was the president’s recess appointment of union attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, where his previous anti-employer (and arguably anti-employee) views could threaten workplace democracy.
That leads the chatter around the blogosphere.
The Daily Caller reported it as “Obama rewards unions with key labor appointee,” while noting all 41 Republican Senators sent a letter to the president urging him not to move forward with Becker’s recess appointment. The wording left nothing to the imagination, saying Obama gave “organized labor a big payback for its help in pushing his health-care reform across the finish line, unilaterally appointing a controversial pro-union attorney…”
Investors Business Daily reflects on the stakes involved and turns to the words of the AFL-CIO’s own Stewart Acuff, “If we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice President Biden and their appointees to the National Labor Relations Board to change the rules governing forming a union through administrative action.”
Elsewhere, Chris Stirewalt of the Washington Examiner writes: “Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, Democrats promise to take on global warming, card check, immigration and a regulatory crackdown on banks.”
